Bianca Gismonti via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Bianca Gismonti
- City: Rio de Janeiro
- Country: Brazil
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Toda a arte de Bianca Gismonti nasceu de forma natural e profunda. Herdou a musicalidade do pai – o pianista, violonista e compositor Egberto Gismonti; a mãe, a atriz Rejane Medeiros, legou-lhe a beleza e a teatralidade. Aos nove anos iniciava os estudos de piano e teoria musical e já aos 15 começava a tocar com o pai pelos palcos do mundo. Aos 18, entrou no curso de bacharelado em piano na UFRJ e antes dos 20, vivenciou a magnitude do palco com a amiga atriz Leandra Leal e com a pianista Claudia Castelo Branco, com quem criou o duo de pianos Gisbranco (em dez anos de carreira, são dezenas de viagens, turnês internacionais, três CDs lançados, um DVD coproduzido pelo Canal Brasil e parceria com músicos como Chico César, Jaques Morelenbaum, Carlos Malta, Marcos Suzano e Mônica Salmaso).
O encontro com o baterista e marido Julio Falavigna, em 2009, levou Bianca a explorar a fundo seu caminho como compositora. Fruto dessa travessia, após oito anos de carreira com o Gisbranco, lançou o primeiro e elogiado disco solo, Sonhos de Nascimento (2013), com a presença de nomes como Naná Vasconcelos, Yuri Popoff e Vittor Santos.
Após turnês com participação de diversos músicos, em 2014 a formação do BG Trio se consolidou, seguindo a linha do trio mais moderno, que interage o tempo todo. Com o baterista Julio Falavigna e o baixista Antonio Porto, o BG Trio excursionou pela Europa e Ásia, difundindo sua música na Inglaterra, Áustria, Espanha, Portugal e Japão. Fez ainda shows no Brasil, Uruguai e Argentina.
Em 2015, como consequência da imensa vivência e identificação musical, Bianca finalizou a produção conjunta do seu segundo disco autoral, Primeiro Céu, e do primeiro DVD, ambos com o Trio, enriquecido pelas participações especiais das cantoras Jane Duboc e Paula Santoro, do gaitista José Staneck, do trompetista Jessé Sadoc, do pandeirista Sergio Krakowski e do percussionista africano Djakali Kone.
Bianca Gismonti levantou voo, do Sonho ao Céu.
Texto de Roberto Muggiati
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Press Contact:
Ana Paula Romeiro
ana.romeiro@globo.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Website: http://biancagismonti.wordpress.com
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7DIXu0uaJWQhlWQc5u1OJ0
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/1tUJX08RbxYA1bdKrYwdb6
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/7kdZXRmeFn9JUx4GxHn4HN
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
